And in the end, what we are trying to do … it’s a bit of place-making. It’s a non-place that we now want to make into a real place for the community. Something that was about keeping you away, now becomes the destination. David Adjaye
Design Architect

There was this piece of land that was very historic, very important, I mean, the park’s bigger than an acre – it’s a real place – and yet it was invisible because it was behind a wall. It had oil tanks and a coal yard and it was an abandoned power plant. So it was just off the radar, but now it’s going to come back as an active part of the community. Laurie Olin
Landscape Architect

I think David Adjaye has brought to this building the understanding and skill of an architectural historian, to which he has added the imagination of an architect. It’s a delicate balance between evoking the spirit of the old building and solving a new and different design problem, and I think he has achieved it masterfully. This proposal is exactly the kind of intervention this building needs to have if it is to have continued life. Paul Goldberger
Architecture critic and board member
of the National Trust for Historic Preservation

How wonderful that this alien object, the West Heating Plant, forced on Georgetown by the Federal Government in the 1940s without any community input, will be transformed into a welcoming community asset. The project is truly a success story - a transparent process, input from all sides over several years, and iterative design by world class talents on the developer's side. We are so fortunate to have David Adjaye, Laurie Olin and The Levy Group leading this effort.
Victoria Rixey
Architect, Georgetown resident, a member and former chair of CAG’s Historic Preservation and Zoning Committee

I’m a partner in this project because it’s a smart urban development: one, the kind called for by my Planning Director Andrew Altman and carried forward by his successors Harriet Tregoning and now Eric Shaw; two, because, thanks to Sir David Adjaye and Laurie Olin, it transforms a historical environmental injustice, a noxious polluting coal-burning plant, into an attractive residential building and public park; three, because I know of the track record held by Marshall Rose and Richard Levy in restoring public space – parks and libraries; and finally, because this project will bring valuable property onto DC’s tax base, growing our economy and providing direct and indirect benefits, include needed jobs and housing. Anthony A. Williams
CEO, Federal City Council and former Mayor, Washington, DC